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 America 717 of the extant codices containing works of Russian writers) (St. Peters- burg, 1906). AMERICA GENERAL ITEMS The staff of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington has been strengthened by the accession of Professor Edmund C. Burnett, formerly of Mercer University, who will have special charge of the work on the letters of the delegates to the Old Congress. Miss Davenport has returned from England with the materials necessary for making complete Professor Andrews's Guide with respect to the lesser repositories of American material in London — the archives of the House of Lords, the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of London, the archbishop of Westminster, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Hudson's Bay Company, Sion College, etc. As soon as these materials can be properly combined with Professor Andrews's text, the book will be ready for the press. Mr. Waldo G. Leland will go to Paris in June, for a year's work in the preparation of a similar guide to the materials for American and. by arrangement with the Canadian archives office, also Canadian history in the Par- isian archives. It is expected that Professor H. E. Bolton will be able at the same time to proceed to Mexico. Mr. Perez's Guide to the Archives of Cuba has gone to press. Professor Shepherd's Spanish report is expected to be finished in May. Mr. Leland's revised edition of Van Tyne and Leland's Guide to the Archives of the Government in Washington is ready for the press. Dr. H. M. Bowman has labored upon the preliminaries of the proposed edition of the American de- bates in Parliament. In an article on " Gaps in the Published Records of United States History", published in this journal last July, in a passage relating to gaps that might be filled from English sources, four chief desiderata of that sort were noted : a series of the colonial items in the Registers of the Privy Council, a series of the royal proclamations relating to America, a series of the colonial acts of Parliament, and a series of the debates in Parliament on American subjects. It is pleasing to know that all four gaps are already in a fair way to be filled. The Lords of the Treasury have provided for the printing of the first, and the edi- torial expenses seem likely to be met by English, American and Canadian contributions. A committee of the American Antiquarian Society, ap- pointed to consider the second, has strongly recommended its adoption. Professor William MacDonald had already undertaken the third ; and the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution is making preparatory investigations toward the fourth. The Secretaries of War, the Interior and Agriculture have jointly is- sued, under the act of June 8, 1906. a set of regulations for the super- vision of historic and prehistoric ruins, archaeological sites, monuments,